Japan's ultimatum to Germany!!1 The most ungrateful and vulgar accomplishment of a human organism! Animals of the East, who have been redeemed especially by Germany and to whom the Germans have, unfortunately by mistake, offered compliments even for an art which is non-existent, strike a rude tone and thus recall those animals that, even if coddled in this way, stick their claws into their benefactor.

That England avails itself of the Japanese is yet another stalk in the straw crown of dishonor. But what respect does this say about Germany's greatness, what fear, what envy, if England must secure Japan's help for itself! How high does Germany stand merely on account of the fact that England must stir up the entire world in order to be half a match. Not its own fleet, not its colonies, not France or Russia, not continents are enough for it, so weak does England feel in the face of a Germany! And how wonderfully does the superiority of German culture manifest itself; for what else is it that marks out the difference so greatly if, in the end, the German trader does not basically need to be differentiated from the English one. The plus in Germany is thus certainly accounted for by that undefinable culture which, it is hoped, will be translated into strong military feats and victories.

Japanese thuggery has always misled the authorities and the public in a thuggish way. They took what Germany gave them; and although they were for a long time aware that they would have to return to Japan, the descendants of this breed of animal, lauded for its honor and valor, secretly went on the run!2 Here, too, the white race will later learn to make changes; for the Japanese will always be Japanese! Self-reliant, and at best reliant also on England, which is in turn reliant on Germany, they will slide back into the animal kingdom, and as animals they will be annihilated.

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The Frankfurter Zeitung communicates an expression of an English journalist: "We want to make war without hatred."3 It is not so easy to find another document which gives insight into the unpleasantness of an English "soul." One can imagine a thug who {656} robs people's pockets and believes that, in spite of the theft, he may play the gentleman by saying: I don't mean it personally, and I am acting without hatred! Thus the English highwayman wishes to make a distinction, and make his stinking deed into a gracious one merely by using a gracious word for it. The small English brain, which is capable only of theft, runs aground already in distinguishing word and deed: in spite of knowledge, literature and culture, it has no idea that only the deed is the word. Of course, if a nation like England is made up of acts of plunder, then if words have not yet been found, new words must be invented; for how could the English race, from morning to night, merely continue to use the words business, profit, theft, cunning, deviousness, breach of promise, and so on? Would they not, in order to be able to speak of their stinking deeds, have to invent words of the opposite character? And as a result now of provoking a world war, would they not have to think up some contradiction in terms, one worthy of an Edward VII: combat without hatred? With the passing of time it has become increasingly clear that England has for many years wanted to throw an entire world of grenades upon an industrious Germany! The presence of Germany compromised England; the industriousness, the capacity for art in Germany offended the English merchants!

What is regrettable is only that, in reply to these wickedly perverse phrases of a feuilleton lackey, even the Frankfurter Zeitung has made a reply, in the form of goat excrement, in which even one of the first sentences reads: "A cool, excellent word… ." It does not seem to dawn upon the respondent how, in this "excellent" word of the English parasite, the English psyche is even more pathetically exposed than in the deeds of a Mr. Grey. I believe, however, that God's order would not be that which had succeeded, things would not be what they are, if plans of an Edward VII, plans of a Grey and Izvolsky, of a Nicholas and a Hartwig, if plans of such obscure, incompetent individuals were smashed by the power of the [war] material. How the German newspapers commended Edward VII as a genius-endowed politician as he travelled from one {657} capital city to the next, a traveler in waistcoats and dances. What devastation did this glorification of an incompetent king, offered by incompetent scribblers, bring to Europe. It is a blessing that God alone knows things in their true value, and lets the bad politician Edward VII be the bad politician that he was, and lets Germany be the Germany that it was, is, and will remain.

And another fat-face of a poet: a Mr. Maeterlinck, who will be outshone by two poems of a Schiller, abuses Germany,4 a nation that conferred honor and fortune upon him beyond his accomplishments and ability. Would that Germany finally learn from this to leave inferior foreign beings in their inferiority, instead of inflating them.

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Pope Pius X is dead. I fear that he did not know himself – in any event he did not know the New Testament.

Japan's ultimatum to Germany!!1 The most ungrateful and vulgar accomplishment of a human organism! Animals of the East, who have been redeemed especially by Germany and to whom the Germans have, unfortunately by mistake, offered compliments even for an art which is non-existent, strike a rude tone and thus recall those animals that, even if coddled in this way, stick their claws into their benefactor.

That England avails itself of the Japanese is yet another stalk in the straw crown of dishonor. But what respect does this say about Germany's greatness, what fear, what envy, if England must secure Japan's help for itself! How high does Germany stand merely on account of the fact that England must stir up the entire world in order to be half a match. Not its own fleet, not its colonies, not France or Russia, not continents are enough for it, so weak does England feel in the face of a Germany! And how wonderfully does the superiority of German culture manifest itself; for what else is it that marks out the difference so greatly if, in the end, the German trader does not basically need to be differentiated from the English one. The plus in Germany is thus certainly accounted for by that undefinable culture which, it is hoped, will be translated into strong military feats and victories.

Japanese thuggery has always misled the authorities and the public in a thuggish way. They took what Germany gave them; and although they were for a long time aware that they would have to return to Japan, the descendants of this breed of animal, lauded for its honor and valor, secretly went on the run!2 Here, too, the white race will later learn to make changes; for the Japanese will always be Japanese! Self-reliant, and at best reliant also on England, which is in turn reliant on Germany, they will slide back into the animal kingdom, and as animals they will be annihilated.

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The Frankfurter Zeitung communicates an expression of an English journalist: "We want to make war without hatred."3 It is not so easy to find another document which gives insight into the unpleasantness of an English "soul." One can imagine a thug who {656} robs people's pockets and believes that, in spite of the theft, he may play the gentleman by saying: I don't mean it personally, and I am acting without hatred! Thus the English highwayman wishes to make a distinction, and make his stinking deed into a gracious one merely by using a gracious word for it. The small English brain, which is capable only of theft, runs aground already in distinguishing word and deed: in spite of knowledge, literature and culture, it has no idea that only the deed is the word. Of course, if a nation like England is made up of acts of plunder, then if words have not yet been found, new words must be invented; for how could the English race, from morning to night, merely continue to use the words business, profit, theft, cunning, deviousness, breach of promise, and so on? Would they not, in order to be able to speak of their stinking deeds, have to invent words of the opposite character? And as a result now of provoking a world war, would they not have to think up some contradiction in terms, one worthy of an Edward VII: combat without hatred? With the passing of time it has become increasingly clear that England has for many years wanted to throw an entire world of grenades upon an industrious Germany! The presence of Germany compromised England; the industriousness, the capacity for art in Germany offended the English merchants!

What is regrettable is only that, in reply to these wickedly perverse phrases of a feuilleton lackey, even the Frankfurter Zeitung has made a reply, in the form of goat excrement, in which even one of the first sentences reads: "A cool, excellent word… ." It does not seem to dawn upon the respondent how, in this "excellent" word of the English parasite, the English psyche is even more pathetically exposed than in the deeds of a Mr. Grey. I believe, however, that God's order would not be that which had succeeded, things would not be what they are, if plans of an Edward VII, plans of a Grey and Izvolsky, of a Nicholas and a Hartwig, if plans of such obscure, incompetent individuals were smashed by the power of the [war] material. How the German newspapers commended Edward VII as a genius-endowed politician as he travelled from one {657} capital city to the next, a traveler in waistcoats and dances. What devastation did this glorification of an incompetent king, offered by incompetent scribblers, bring to Europe. It is a blessing that God alone knows things in their true value, and lets the bad politician Edward VII be the bad politician that he was, and lets Germany be the Germany that it was, is, and will remain.

And another fat-face of a poet: a Mr. Maeterlinck, who will be outshone by two poems of a Schiller, abuses Germany,4 a nation that conferred honor and fortune upon him beyond his accomplishments and ability. Would that Germany finally learn from this to leave inferior foreign beings in their inferiority, instead of inflating them.

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Pope Pius X is dead. I fear that he did not know himself – in any event he did not know the New Testament.